Household survey data: incentives influencing tree planting in the Albertine Rift Region of Uganda

We undertook a study in Kiryanga Sub County, located in Kagadi district, Buyaga East County in the Albertine Region. Kiryanga Sub County was one of the eight Sub Counties in the three districts of the Albertine Rift Region - Hoima, Kagadi and Kakumiro, where the Murchison‐Semliki REDD+ Pilot Project was involved in incentive-based tree planting (Wieland, 2012). Forests in Kiryanga are under threat leading to loss of biodiversity (NEMA, 2009). We conducted 11 Key informant interviews, 6 focus group discussions and 218 household interviews to generate information on the influence of incentives on tree planting among both tree farmers and non-tree farmers. We restricted our survey to an 18 year time period; that is, from 2000 to 2018. The key questions we asked were: 1) which incentives were given for tree planting? and 2) which incentives were more preferred by farmers?